THANKS JOHN ! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FALL BACK TIME CHANGE EST
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:51:51 -0600, Kammer, Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is pretty much what we do as timing is important since we support >the County Jail. There are documented cases of people being released from custody because "computer records" proved they were arrested before the crime occurred. > >Charles S. Kammer > Which simply reinforces my point that all computer time stamps should be recorded in GMT time, not local. If needed, they can be converted from GMT to local time when displayed. Of course, this latter means that the conversion routine needs to know how to convert (i.e. when DST started and ended for every particular year). In Linux, this is kept in a system TZDATA file. Wish z/OS had something similar. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
